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Moll's surname 'Davis' or 'Davies' is clearly a stage name or an assumed name, and so the spelling is therefore not of great importance. Sources . Wikipedia Article. Accessed 11 July 2021. Moll Davis] Wilson, J. H. 'All The King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration', 1958. Clays Extinct Northern Peerages p. 176; More Genealogy Tools
27 de nov. de 2022 · There was competition between Nell and her friend Moll Davis, and it was Davis who managed to win the King’s affections first, receiving gifts and being called to his bed chamber often. To win the upper hand, it is said that Nell played an awful trick on Davis, putting laxatives in her supper before she went to see the King for the night.
25 de feb. de 2021 · According to legend, she smoothed her path by getting her friend the writer (and alleged spy) Aphra Behn to deal with an actress named Moll Davis who was currently sleeping with him. Aphra allegedly dosed Moll with laxatives on a night she was due to visit the king, leading to an unfortunate incident that ended their relationship.
Mary "Moll" Davis (ca. 1648 - 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be "a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire" - probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire.[1] During ...
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Moll Davis (Westminster, London, 1648 körül - 1708) angol színésznő, énekesnő, II. Károly angol király szeretője.. Életpályája. Mary Davies néven született, 1648 körül, London Westminster nevű kerületében, egyes feltételezések szerint Barkeshire 3. lordjának, Thomas Howardnak a törvénytelen leányaként.
Charles was already enamoured with Moll Davis, a fellow actress but, on Nell’s return to London at the end of 1667, Buckingham saw an opportunity to dangle another mistress under the king’s nose. Negotiations began: Nell suggested that she would need £500 per year to be kept as the king’s mistress, but this was rejected as too expensive - and so, as quickly as they began, the ...
Moll Davis apparently began her stage career in 1660. John Downes, prompter at Lincoln’s Inn Fields from the 1660s and author of Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical Review of the Stage published in 1708, named her as one of Sir William Davenant’s four ‘Principal Actresses’ whom ‘he boarded at his own House’ when he formed his company.
